Tag: Waitrose

Shell to install hundreds of electrical vehicle charging points at Waitrose stores by 2025 as part of expanded partnership

Stuart Mitchell

Waitrose and Shell have set out ambitious plans to grow their partnership, installing hundreds of electric vehicle charging points in the supermarket’s car parks and more than doubling the number of Shell forecourt shops where Waitrose food is available. The companies have announced that they are targeting the installation of 800 Shell Recharge electric vehicle charging points in up to 100 Waitrose locations across the UK by 2025. Each site is expected to have six 22kW and two 50kW rapid charging points so customers can charge their vehicles while they…

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Waitrose Joins Forces with Chefs in Schools to Launch New Qualification

Stuart Mitchell

School food charity, Chefs in Schools – which specialises in teaching school kitchen teams essential nutritional knowledge and the know-how to meet school food standards – is launching a training qualification at Waitrose Cookery School Finchley Road this September.  Waitrose will provide the Cookery School and produce free of charge to support the launch. Participants will attend a cook-a-long session as well as completing an online platform.  Lindsey Crompton, Social Impact and Health Lead, said: “We’re thrilled to host Chefs in Schools at our Waitrose Cookery School for their launch. …

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Waitrose to stop selling bagged gardening compost made from peat

Stuart Mitchell

Waitrose has brought forward plans to stop selling bagged gardening compost made from peat, pledging to only sell peat-free alternatives by the start of 2022 – helping its customers adopt more sustainable practices in their gardens.  The move will come several years ahead of government plans, which recently announced it intends to ban the sale of compost containing peat to amateur gardeners by the close of the current parliament in 2024. Marija Rompani, Director of Ethics and Sustainability, at the John Lewis Partnership said:  “If rainforests are the lungs of…

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Waitrose ‘unpacks’ more products as demand for refillables grows

Stuart Mitchell

 In response to a growing customer demand for refillables, Waitrose is launching more new products as part of their pioneering ‘Unpacked’ refillable concept, including loose tea for the first time.  Sales of refillables at their four Unpacked shops have grown by nearly 9% in the past six months with a number of products proving particularly popular with shoppers. Sales of refillable frozen fruit and vegetables for the same period have increased by more than 50%, detergent and washing-up liquid sales have grown by 24% and pulses, pasta and grains have…

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Waitrose rolls out trial to help customers dispense of hard to recycle flexible plastic packaging in-store.

Stuart Mitchell

Waitrose has announced plans to roll out a new trial that will allow its customers to return hard to recycle flexible plastics at their local store. The scheme, which goes live this week at 37 branches serviced by Waitrose’s Leyland Distribution Centre in the North of England, will permit all clean flexible plastics that can be crunched up, stretched, squashed or unfurled to be deposited in-store for an initial period of 12 weeks. Drop off points that have historically been used to recycle plastic bags will be retrofitted to allow…

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